Posted on 12/01/2010 4:03:28 PM PST by wagglebee
For only three hours a year do Americans actually look forward to watching commercials rather than ignoring them, muting them or running to the bathroom during them, as we do the other 8,763 hours.
That is during the Super Bowl.
In fact, commercials have become part of the entertainment during football's annual big game, a cultural phenomenon.
So imagine a 30-second Super Bowl ad showing the graphic reality of abortion.
Most Americans, including many pro-lifers, would abhor such an ad.
But pro-life activists like me would be ecstatic, if such a word can be used to describe fulfillment of a passion to see a multitude of people face the truth about abortion. Activists believe that only by understanding the reality of abortion will the culture be wholeheartedly persuaded against it.
And the publicity, oh, the publicity. Recall the controversy surrounding Focus on the Family's pro-life pablum Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow earlier this year. This would be that on gigamegalo-steroids.
And there is a chance such a commercial will air during the 2012 Super Bowl.
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I agree with you. Reluctantly, for certain.
Agreed, but I'm talking about 5 and 6 year old kids who are too young for the gruesomeness of the abortion subject IMHO.
In a lot of ways I think that the money would possibly be better spent showing a lot more commercials on shows like "Jersey Shore" where the audience is primarily people in their older teens and twenties.
I am all for it. It would reach millions-—no billions of people. It would shock them into the reality of abortion.
“Agreed, but I’m talking about 5 and 6 year old kids who are too young for the gruesomeness of the abortion subject IMHO.”
Good! Get them now before the publik skewl does and makes them pro aborts! Images like that will make them pro life forever! I mean this~
“A baby is murdered EVERY 24 SECONDS, if the images offend people maybe it will make them consider what our nation is doing. “
People tend to shut their minds off completely when faced with the extreme. These ads are proven to work
http://www.grtl.org/tvads.asp
If they can run the beer commercials, they can run graphic abortion commercials.
And the beat marches on.
50 million kids, and you’d rather people not see the truth?
**A baby is murdered EVERY 24 SECONDS, if the images offend people maybe it will make them consider what our nation is doing.**
Making our nation extinct. That’s what its doing!
I didn't say that.
I meant children watching the Super Bowl with mom and dad should not be exposed to disturbing images. I think that's reasonable.
If they can run the graphic abortion commercial, then why not a graphic anti-gay commercial or anti-death penalty or anti-DWI or animal cruelty etc commercials?
The point is, there is a line somewhere when it comes to children watching.
The best approach would be to cover it in health class at high school. I saw pictures of an unborn baby dolphin, elephant, dog, and baby. Then asked people if they could abort one of the animals. If they say “no” then ask them how a human would be possible. Makes ‘em think.
No graphic anti-abortion spots ever at the Super Bowl.
The images should offend people. But there is a time and place for everything. The Super Bowl is not right. High school is. And for everyone past the HS age, get them to think about the issue from a different perspective. Would they abort a puppy or kitty. If not then how could they abort a child. Not confrontational, just calmly, rationally, so they don’t feel threatened. The screaming guy on the corner preaching to the world probably never won anyone. Plus, put yourself in their shoes. Would you want to be confronted?
I think its hypocritical to permit the beer advertisements to run, and then complain about graphic abortion commercials.
Right now the only ‘standard’ on television is that you can’t show what really happens during an abortion.
Sex, violence, drug abuse, all ok. Abortion, no.
I was on the other side. There is no replacement for the graphic abortion pictures to drive the point home.
Why do you think they show children what really happened during the holocaust? Same reason. Some things are just so horrifying.
Would I want to be confronted? No.
Does that mean we ought not to confront others? Hardly.
Truth *is* confrontational. This is why you want to sugarcoat it, to hide it away, because there’s simply no way to express the truth without offending someone.
I’ve been that guy on the street corner, and no, despite your lies, we don’t shout. We don’t holler, we simply stand there. Is it confrontational? Yes. Is it necessary? When we have folks who pretend to be on our side trying to shut us down, yes, very much so.
What gives you the authority to say that the signs haven’t changed anyone’s mind, when they changed mine?
I would agree with you, but that’s really not the argument, is it?
So far, we are perfectly willing to expose our children to disturbing images, provided it’s got nothing to do with abortion.
Again, given the current broadcast standards, I see no reason why they shouldn’t show a graphic abortion spot in the superbowl.
When we can have Obama try to shove garbage down our throats, then graphic abortion shots are fair game. When our enemies stop trying to use the game as a political advertisement, then we can discuss things like ‘tactics’, as it is, we are crippling ourselves.
You confrontational attitude and slander is unwarranted. If you wish to be uncivil then I can do that. I give as good as I get.
I do not lie. Nor do I pretend to be on the side of the unborn.
If you wouldn’t want to be confronted, then whey do you think another person would?
Yes, there are ways to present facts/truth that is not confrontational. I am not trying to sugarcoat anything, but merely to get people to see a horrific thing and perhaps change their mind, thereby saving babies.
If you were just standing on the corner, then my comments don’t apply to you. You weren’t hollering. But you’ve seen those that do, and the reaction they garner.
Where does my authority come from? Same as yours, by expressing an opinion. That’s what this site is partially for. I don’t believe that I said the signs didn’t change minds. I said that confrontation doesn’t. Shoving something in someone’s face doesn’t. I changed, just as you did, but it was from critically thinking about the position. Not screaming.
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